Fluorescent bulbs are the most effective and resilient lightbulbs available today. With the move toward more energy efficiency and environmental duty, fluorescent lights are becoming more common fixtures internationally. Below are some of the things that are significant that you have to understand about Fluorescent lightbulbs:
Waste King's nine-step fluorescent bulb recycling procedure is:
The approximate capacity for one inch fluorescent tubes, is 150 x 6ft or 450 x 2ft tubes.
The container with the spent lamps taken and is accumulated to Waste King's website for sorting.
The container is put in the site storage area to await processing.
Waste King loads the lamps onto racked trolleys for processing in a crush and separationplant.
The plant is fully automatic. It enables processing of the various types and sizes of lamps, dividing them into phosphor powder, aluminium end caps, lead glass /ferrous metal components and soda lime glass.
The crush and sieve plant operates at sub-pressure, thus preventing mercury from being released into the surroundings as exhaust air (which can be continuously discharged through the internal carbon filters).
The whole puppy love and separation plant is included in a container where a conveyor feeds the tubes into a hammer mill. The ensuing combined fractions are air-conducted through a separation tower, where the glass and metal are removed. The glass and metal components are subsequently crushed further and air-conveyed to another separation tower. Glass caused by the sieving operation (after the first separation tower) is smashed farther and air-conducted through a third separation tower. The glass fragments, removed by the third separation tower, are fed into a rotary drum-feeder and transferred to your discharge conveyor to transfer the byproduct out of the processing unit.
The air stream that's passed through the separation towers contains phosphor powder.
This air stream passes through a cyclone, where the powder is accumulated in a distiller barrel, and after that passes through two dust filters, where the remaining dust deposited in distiller barrels and is removed. The air stream then passes through four- carbon filters to remove any mercury vapour before passing into the atmosphere via a combined vent.
Aluminium found glass and metals metals are sent to other firms to be used as raw materials or for additional processing.
Every time a customer has filled a ‘coffin' with fluorescent tubes that are spent, Waste King's operatives will arrive, gather the container and entire process continues.
